{"id":238689,"date":"2026-08-06T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238689\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:05:29","slug":"united-states-military-removing-refuelers-from-israels-ben-gurion-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238689\/","title":{"rendered":"United States military removing refuelers from Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Air Force has begun relocating some of its aerial refueling aircraft that had been stationed at Ben-Gurion Airport in recent weeks, amid ongoing security developments, N12 reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The move comes after Transportation Minister Miri Regev pressed Israeli security officials to clear the refueling aircraft from the airport in order to ensure normal operations during one of Ben-Gurion<\/a>‘s busiest travel periods.<\/p>\n

More than 2.6 million passengers are expected to pass through Ben-Gurion Airport during August, making it one of the airport’s busiest months since the October 7 massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Airport authorities expect an average of approximately 100,000 passengers to travel through Ben-Gurion<\/a> each day throughout the month. Thursdays are forecast to be the busiest days of the week, while Monday, August 17, is expected to be the single busiest day of the month.<\/p>\n

The relocation of the US tanker aircraft is intended to free valuable parking and operational space at the airport as airlines continue to handle increased passenger volumes during the summer travel season.<\/p>\n

The report did not specify how many aircraft<\/a> were relocated or where they were transferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Air Force has begun relocating some of its aerial refueling aircraft that had been stationed at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[542,539,37,541,7212,5099],"class_list":["post-238689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airport","tag-ben-gurion-airport","tag-israel","tag-miri-regev","tag-plane","tag-us-air-force"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117049421420633140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}